Cenk: How we (TYT) will crush CNN [View all]

[Enrique]

fun for everybody!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/how-we-will-crush-cnn_b_3488560.html

The Young Turks is the largest online news show in the world. We have just crossed the Million/Billion mark. We have over one million subscribers and one billion views on our YouTube channel. There are only 25 non-music channels in the Million/Billion Club. We are the only news channel in the group.

The average age of CNN's audience is 68. Isn't that amazing? The average CNN viewer is retired. When you go over to Fox News, it's even worse. The average O'Reilly viewer is 71! Only 12 percent of his audience is in the coveted 25-54 age bracket (this is the demo that advertisers find appealing, so everyone on cable news cares more about this number than anything else). This so-called big shot is basically doing his show out of a senior citizens center. 71!!!

Even the youngest skewing show on MSNBC, All In with Chris Hayes, only has about 33 percent of its audience in the 25-54 demo. Everyone else does worse or much, much worse. Cable news is literally ancient.

So, I am greatly amused when CNN keeps rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Ohhh, they brought in Chris Cuomo for the morning show! Whoop dee doo! What is this 1985, where a so-called star will help your morning show and the rest of your lineup will take-off from there? This is so unbelievably antiquated.

First, almost no one in TV news is a star. TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another. Quick, tell me the difference between John King and Wolf Blitzer? You said "the beard," right?

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